Re: Different values of mail-sources for different nnml backends?

[Jack Vinson <vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>]

>>>>> "PS" == Paul Stodghill <stodghil@CS.Cornell.EDU> writes:

PS> Is it possible to have different values of `mail-sources' associated with
PS> different nnml backends?

Yes.  Well, not exactly....

I assume you keep all your mail (once it arrives) in the same place?  I
have just started doing this.  The simplest thing is to have a different
mail-sources variable at your different locations.  You needn't really have
two different nnml servers.  

Here is what I do:
On my slow connection (where I only want to read personal mail), I just
want to read from my personal address.
(setq mail-sources '((pop :server "chevax.ecs.umass.edu"
			  :user "jvinson"
			  )
		     )

On my faster connection, I simply have both 
(setq mail-sources '((pop :server "chevax.ecs.umass.edu"
			  :user "jvinson"
			  )
		     (pop :server "unagi.cis.upenn.edu"
			  :user "vinson"
			  )
		     )

In either situation, all of the nnml groups appear as accessible, it just
that from home, I don't get anything from my UPenn address (where I receive
mailing list mail).

The info node Getting Mail under Select Methods gives a more detail about
all the possibilities for mail-sources.

What I want to try is making my primary select-method be nnml.  And make
nntp a secondary method.  I would like to be able to ONLY read mail while
ignoring everything else.  Will that completely hose my current settings?
I currently do this with C-u 2 gnus-group-get-new-news.  My mail groups
are at level 1 or 2.


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Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu>
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